What’s going to happen with The Late Late Show is probably the only intriguing late night mystery left at this point, unless you’re actually wondering if “real” Stephen Colbert can be funny. A thought that should prompt you to drink bleach immediately.

I don’t know why anyone would want to host a late night talk show though. There are some host that seem to have a lot of fun doing it, but then there are weeks when they probably just feel like sticking a gun in their mouth and paying an assistant to pull the trigger (so they can get into heaven, of course). But then again, the thought crosses my mind all the time and I’m not hosting sh*t.

I haven’t watched a late night talk show in probably a full decade. Norm MacDonald hosting one of them would change that immediately. I can’t believe no one will put this guy on television. The man is simply unique and hilarious.

Problem is while you say you’d watch it….you wouldn’t. It’s one thing for the people like ourselves who enjoy watching clips the next day to say we’d watch but the people who watch a late night show at 12:30AM are a special breed.

Now that I’ve actually watched the clip I have to say….the writers/Norm nailed the problem with late night TV. It’s a f’ing informercial that is 99% filler. And in the age of the…ya know…internet? the best parts get published so we don’t have to watch the other 99%

Norm was gold throughout both of his segments, which comprised probably around 35% of the episode. And he also did some of his patented butting-into the following guest’s interview, which was hilarious as always (and the woman who was being interviewed was pretty charming, herself). I didn’t see the monologue, and the musical performance was a mediocre one-hit-wonder band from the 90s performing their one hit, but I’d say at least half of the episode was worth watching.

Norm tweeted last week he’d heard that Letterman mentioned his name at the CBS upfronts or something, which he took as a sign that things might not be as locked-up for McHale as he’d previously believed. And then he of course resumed the #latelatenormnorm campaign.

I may be one of the few people who loved his sitcom. Sure, two of the big reasons were Nikki Cox *rimshot* but just look at that cast: Norm, Max “ALF/Crack-Smoker” Wright, Artie Lange, Ian Gomez, Laurie Metcalf, Faith Ford.